UW-Stout M.S. Risk Control and Safety Management Program Enhancement

Details

• Personal Author:
  Finder BJ
• Description:
  In 1974, the University of Wisconsin-Stout initiated the M.S. Safety degree program which was eventually changed to M.S. Risk Control and Safety Management. Since its inception, this graduate program has maintained a strong focus on providing both knowledge as well as hands-on risk identification, assessment and control-based competencies to individuals who possess engineering, business, natural sciences, management, rehabilitation, legal, health care and education-based backgrounds. The program's mission is to preserve tomorrow's workforce and their communities by instilling risk control and safety management-based principles, knowledge, and skills into the students to promote the protection of employee, property and environmental-based assets. Since 1974, the program has produced 559 graduates with annual enrollments that range between 25 and 30 students who may participate in traditional face-to-face on-campus weekday evening classes which are also teleconferenced for distance-based individuals. During the past 20 years, the University of Wisconsin Stout's M.S. Risk Control and Safety Management program has been significantly strengthened as a result of a partnership with NIOSH's Training Grant Program (TPG) initiative. The most recent 2016 to 2021 TPG cycle primarily focused on enhancing the curriculum and instruction of this graduate program. The specific goals of the grant involved providing financial assistance for qualified underrepresented and underserved students, to support the associated faculty's professional development and to provide instructional support in the form of services, equipment and supplies. The NIOSH TPG-supported success of the University of Wisconsin-Stout's M.S. Risk Control and Safety Management program can be gauged through its consistent student enrollments and graduation rates as well as the diverse range of professions that the corresponding graduates enter. The program's graduates typically become integral components of an organization's management team who promote the protection of worker safety, health and well-being in various business enterprises that include construction, regulatory compliance, general manufacturing, safety and health consulting, health care, food/beverage processing, insurance, government, transportation, chemical refinement, education and high-tech manufacturing. Hourly employees often convey their process risk concerns to on-staff safety and health professionals who then promote upper management personnel to provide the necessary risk-reduction resources to mitigate the applicable risks. The program's graduates often view themselves as agents of change who are responsible for identifying process deficiencies that possess a potential for human, property and/or environmental loss as well as to assist with the identification of situations where significant loss is already occurring. The program graduates are typically responsible for assisting with the design of risk-reduction measures which ultimately prevent employee injuries and therefore provide long-term organizational financial stability. While extensive technical and management knowledge/skillsets are required of the M.S. Risk Control and Safety Management's program graduates, the rewards of continually protecting people, property and environmental assets causes such individuals to regard their career choice as being exceedingly rewarding. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Risk Assessment Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Curriculum Development Occupational Safety Programs Risk Analysis Safety Education Training Grants
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 5 ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20065197
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, T03-OH-008402, 2021 Oct; :1-6
• Contact Point Address:
  Dr. Brian J. Finder, DIT, CIH, Program Director/PI, M.S. Risk Control and Safety Management, University of Wisconsin-Stout, 248 Jarvis Hall Tech Wing, Menomonie, Wisconsin 54751
• Email:
  finderb@uwstout.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• Performing Organization:
  University of Wisconsin Scout
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:fd94aee87729e6b96f2bbe1e04ae2d184afd6ba2791f354958fac758d3114cfcbb42dcc31cbbb0ae2a16430c6e0339ee9548ef8667c2fcd0914e32b92050a969
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/219110/cdc_219110_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 221.82 KB ]